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October 03, 2006
Burning Man 2006 in Google Earth
[NOTE: See the post for Burning Man 2007]
Looks like Google acquired an aerial photo of the Burning Man 2006 event and has incorporated it as part of the big update pushed out today. Check it out here. 
Also, you can view it in Google Maps. It looks like an aerial photo showing the event during its busiest time. The event was held on August 28 through September 4th, so this data is only a month old! How's that for current data? The resolution of this image looks to be a little less than 1 foot per pixel. You can see people moving around as little blobs, although you can't make out any real details.
[UPDATE: see story about Burning Man and Google Earth in a recent CNET news article.]
Posted by FrankTaylor at October 3, 2006 10:58 AM
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Posted by: Dave Dugdale at October 4, 2006 01:00 PM
And 2005 event is presented over at Yahoo! maps --
http://maps.yahoo.com/beta/#mvt=s&maxp=search&trf=0&lon=-119.235971&lat=40.753434&mag=3
Posted by: Richard at October 5, 2006 07:38 PM
Curious about "Burning Man" never attended but would like info about procedures etc....old hippy seeking another Woodstock ?
Posted by: william at December 8, 2006 01:44 AM
This will probably win some tin foil hat award points for me, but still ...
What happens to the concept of privacy when everything is filmable from orbit? Yes, the whole 3-d movie concept is sort of cool, but I'm not so sure that the same can be said of the implications of this technology, if it should get much better than this.
Posted by: Joseph Dunphy (the Green Tortoise loozer :)) at October 24, 2007 12:13 AM
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Very cool find. That is neat the that the images are so recent.